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THE TOP 10 NIGHTTIME UBER SPOTS IN PHILLY

Stephen Starr and Uber: Philadelphia’s new power couple? Two of the Philadelphia restauranteur’s most popular spots top the list of the places where Uber picked up the most people in the nighttime hours over the last year. The ride sharing company released a list of the top 10 spots where its drivers — including UberX and UberBlack — picked up riders in the last year between the hours of 4 p.m. to 5 a.m. And Starr’s Mexican restaurant El Vez and German beer garden Frankford Hall were No. 1 and 2 on the list. Here’s the full top 10.

WHY THE CITY RUNS THE PHL AIRPORT

Mayor-elect Jim Kenney named the new head of the Philadelphia International Airport. Wait, what? It sounds kind of odd that a mayor would have the job of appointing a CEO, given that airports are major business centers and quite a bit different from other city-regulated services like schools and libraries. But the concept of a publicly owned and operated airport goes back to the 1920s, when all a city needed for an airport was a large empty field and some serious financial backing for what was then a guaranteed loss of money. And in a nutshell, that’s why PHL is still owned by the city of Philadelphia.